New Zealand urchin clingfish
Species of fish
New Zealand urchin clingfish | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Gobiesociformes |
Family: | Gobiesocidae |
Genus: | Dellichthys |
Species: | D. morelandi |
Binomial name | |
Dellichthys morelandi Briggs, 1955 |
The New Zealand urchin clingfish (Dellichthys morelandi) is a clingfish. It is found around New Zealand wherever sea urchins are present. Its length is between 2 and 3 cm.[1]
This species was described by John C. Briggs in 1955[2] and was thought to be the sole species in the monotypic genus Dellichthys until 2018 when a new species, Dellichthys trnskii, was described after being discovered from intertidal and shallow coastal waters of New Zealand in that year.[3] Briggs gave the species its specific name in honour of John Munne Moreland (1921-2012) of the Dominion Museum in Wellington.[4]
References
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Dellichthys morelandi" in FishBase. April 2019 version.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Dellichthys morelandi". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
- ^ Conway, Kevin W.; Stewart, Andrew L.; Summers, Adam P. (2018). "A new species of sea urchin associating clingfish of the genus Dellichthys from New Zealand (Teleostei, Gobiesocidae)". ZooKeys (740): 77–95. doi:10.3897/zookeys.740.22712. PMC 5904551. PMID 29674890. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (7 February 2019). "Order GOBIESOCIFORMES (Clingfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
- "Dellichthys morelandi". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 11 March 2006.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
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Endemic marine fish of New Zealand
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- Blue cod (Parapercis colias)
- Bruun's cutthroat eel (Histiobranchus bruuni)
- Draughtsboard shark (Cephaloscyllium isabellum)
- Fiordland brotula (Fiordichthys slartibartfasti)
- Garfish (Hyporhamphus ihi)
- Giant stargazer (Kathetostoma giganteum)
- Girdled wrasse (Notolabrus cinctus)
- Graham's gudgeon (Grahamichthys radiata)
- Hector's clingfish (Gastroscyphus hectoris)
- Longsnout pipefish (Leptonotus norae)
- New Zealand bigeye (Pempheris adspersa)
- New Zealand black angelfish (Parma alboscapularis)
- New Zealand black goby (Gobiopsis atrata)
- New Zealand blueback sprat (Sprattus antipodum)
- New Zealand brill (Colistium guntheri)
- New Zealand catshark (Bythaelurus dawsoni)
- New Zealand damselfish (Chromis dispilus)
- New Zealand flathead (Bembrops morelandi)
- New Zealand lumpfish (Trachelochismus pinnulatus)
- New Zealand rockfish (Acanthoclinus littoreus)
- New Zealand rough skate (Dipturus nasutus)
- New Zealand sand diver (Tewara cranwellae)
- New Zealand sand flounder (Rhombosolea plebeia)
- New Zealand sand stargazer (Crapatalus novaezelandiae)
- New Zealand slender clingfish (Gastrocyathus gracilis)
- New Zealand smooth skate (Dipturus innominatus)
- New Zealand sole (Peltorhamphus novaezeelandiae)
- New Zealand sprat (Sprattus muelleri)
- New Zealand topknot (Notoclinus fenestratus)
- New Zealand torpedo (Tetronarce fairchildi)
- New Zealand turbot (Colistium nudipinnis)
- New Zealand urchin clingfish (Dellichthys morelandi)
- Notchheaded marblefish (Aplodactylus etheridgii)
- Oblique-swimming triplefin (Forsterygion maryannae)
- Prickly deep-sea skate (Brochiraja spinifera)
- Rough-head whiptail (Coelorinchus aspercephalus)
- Slender stargazer (Crapatalus angusticeps)
- Smooth deep-sea skate (Brochiraja asperula)
- Spotted estuary smooth-hound (Mustelus lenticulatus)
- Spotty (Notolabrus celidotus)
- Yellow-and-black triplefin (Forsterygion flavonigrum)
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